Nations, Not Globalism, is the Lord’s Way

We of “the church, the body of Christ” today live under the “dispensation of the grace of God and have nothing to do with Israel’s Law program. Nevertheless, it’s interesting to note that the Biblical principles of the Lord that were given to the Nation Israel in order to maintain the blessing of the Lord, while He would use Israel to ultimately bless “all the families of the earth” (Gen 12:3).

The Bible clearly indicates that God established and endorsed a national borders or boundaries in the world generally, and that the Nation Israel would be under God’s authority by the Mosaic Law. As we will see God intended that the Nation Israel would receive the stranger” or “sojourner” (immigrants) on His prescribed basis. These Gentiles could come to God only through Israel’s explicit program.

After Noah’s flood the earth contained families that came out of the lines of his three Sons; Shem, Ham. and Japheth. These tribes were seen as Nations and all spoke one language up until God reacted to man’s first attempt to establish a one world government.

These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues (dialects), in their lands, after their nations. 32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood. (Genesis 10:31-32)

 “And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.” (Genesis 11:1)

The first attempt at a one world government appeared in Genesis 11 when men wanted to be as God, ruling themselves, in denial of God. God had told Noah to scatter and fill the earth but they wanted to be one. The Lord destroyed their unity by confounding their languages and men again were divided into nations.

“And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.  7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. 8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. (Genesis 11:7-9)

The Lord established boundaries or borders for the nations as the “bounds of their habitation”

“And (God) hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;” (Acts 17:26)

The Lord’s chosen Nation was Israel (Exodus 19:5). He instructed Israel to welcome the stranger or sojourner, but with certain requirements. They had to assimilate and keep Israel’s Mosaic Law of God, which included circumcision of the males.

“Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the LORD your God.” (Leviticus 24:22)

Israel was warned against assimilating the pagan practices of the strangers that they welcomed, but they had to be assimilated and adapted to the Law of Israel.

“Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:” (Leviticus 18:26)